Australian Tik Toker Jazmyn Jennings warns about horrifying toilet cams in South Korean toilets

An Australian woman has issued a terrifying warning about hidden cameras to female travellers visiting South Korea.

An Australian woman has issued a terrifying warning to female travellers visiting South Korea about the prevalence of hidden cameras in bathrooms.

Jazmyn Jennings took to TikTok to highlight what she says is a “huge“ but not discussed problem in the Asian country.

“If you go into any female bathroom you will find every single crevice plugged up with toilet papers,” she warned ominously.

She told her followers that women use this trick to stop cameras being hidden in these spaces.

“’This issue extends beyond toilets as well,’ she said. ‘We’re talking Airbnbs, hotel rooms … basically anywhere that is a private area you run the risk of being exposed.’

Jazmyn Jennings described the use of hidden cameras in South Korea as a ‘huge problem’. Picture: Tik Tok /@jazmynjennings

Jennings says the issue of hidden cameras is not discussed enough. Picture: Tik Tok /@jazmynjennings

She also shared you can find the hidden cameras in the most bizarre places including in fire alarms and clocks as well.

She urged tourists to travel with a device that can recognise a hidden camera.

“They can help you find the light in the room and it’ll show you [the hidden camera],” she explained. “You can either report it, or you can take it away.”

Pornography is banned in South Korea but the country is battling an epidemic of so-called ‘molka’ – spycam videos mostly showing women, having been secretly filmed by men in schools, toilets and offices.

Seungri, a member of the K-pop boy group BIGBANG, arrives for questioning over criminal allegations at the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency in Seoul. Picture: AFP

K-pop star Jung Joon-young arrives to attend a hearing on his arrest warrant at the Seoul central district court in March 2019. Picture: AFP

‘Revenge porn’- videos taken of sexual relations without the partner’s consent – is believed to be equally widespread.

In 2019, a number of high-profile K-pop stars resigned from show business after admitting to filming and distributing illicit sex videos, filmed without consent, or watching them.

The biggest scalp was singer Jung Joon-young who admitted he had secretly filmed himself having sex with women and shared the footage online without their consent.

More than 30,000 cases of filming with the use of hidden cameras were reported to police in South Korea between 2013-2018, according to media reports in Time magazine.

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